Natural Resources committee  We need an advertising slogan like “Be Proud of It”. Let's put a little bit of advertising into our industry. Every time there's a hot number one legal show--maybe it's this new Arctic Air TV show or something like that--advertising helps make these kinds of things exciting. Peo

Natural Resources committee  May I say that on infrastructure, you only get one chance to build these roads or pipelines or whatever. They're not pushed anywhere; they're pulled. They're pulled from an asset, and it's going to come from the south. It will hopefully go through as many native communities as po

Natural Resources committee  I would just add to what Kirk said about consultation, because as partners of ours in the drilling, the first nations would want to talk to us about that side of it. That's business development for them, and it's not necessarily something they're familiar with. The majority of hi

Natural Resources committee  Again, with the advent of Webequie owning the drill company, both companies on my left use Cyr Drilling and employ first nations people from that community. Going back to the question on electronics, I'd be happy to start a company that deals with training aboriginals in those

Natural Resources committee  South of this area, down near Rainy River, we trained 20 first nation drillers in one year on the Osisko contract, which was Brett Resources at the time. Our drilling company is owned partly by a first nation. Lac Seul would like to open a drilling school. We'd like to see peop

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. Now, electricians are a bit off of my professional training; the drillers are the immediate need. The electricians are there. There are plenty of colleges in the north they could go to. The jobs are there. I'd like to get one crack at the real, direct thing that Kir

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I'd like to thank the committee for inviting me to address this important issue, as well as thank my colleagues who are talking today. I'll take the lead from Kirk on the sad report yesterday to save Ontario's economy. I'm just going from what Evan Solomon kept sayin